DN SOOPers Challengers 3-0 Dplus Kia Challengers — World Star Challengers Invitational 2026 Results & Stats

TL;DR: DN SOOPers Challengers swept Dplus Kia Challengers 3-0 at the 2026 World Star Challengers Invitational, winning the decider 25-13 in 27:20. A series the market priced at just 24% turned into a one-sided statement built on bot-lane control, jungle pressure and three dominant objective games.

DN SOOPers Challengers won the 2026 World Star Challengers Invitational series against Dplus Kia Challengers 3-0, and the sweep was never really in doubt after the opening map.

Key Takeaways

• Revenge is the series MVP: a flawless 11/0/8 Kaisa in Game 3, plus a +2,001 gold lead at 15 minutes on Kalista in Game 4, made the bot lane DN SOOPers' permanent win condition.
• DDoiV's 1/0/17 Sejuani in the Game 5 decider produced an 18.00 KDA and sealed a 25-13 kill win, closing the series at 27:20 with a 59.9k to 50.1k gold gap.
• Polymarket opened the series at Dplus Kia 76% to DN SOOPers 24% — the single biggest miss of the event. DN SOOPers answered that pre-match odds line by winning three maps, two of them by more than 12 kills.

Before the Series

The pre-match modelling pointed one way and the draft board pointed another. Dplus Kia Challengers entered with a 76.5% series probability on Polymarket, a 5W-1L record and a +1,162 average gold differential, against DN SOOPers' -2,392. The nightly draft notes flagged Vi at 100% WR across 4 B1 games and Qiyana at 75% across 4, with Lulu at 66.7% from P4 as the swing flex for Dplus Kia.

What the notes could not price was DN SOOPers' comfort. Their Lulu wins just 40% in 20 games, and the champion never became the map-shaping piece the numbers promised for either side. Qiyana appeared for DDoiV in Game 2 and delivered a +869 gold lead at 15 minutes, so the pre-draft call was not wrong there — but the champion's early dividends never converted into a map.

Trading Blows

Game 1 was the warning shot: 26-8 kills in 29:30, a 13.3k-style chasm that told the market its 69% Game 1 read was fiction.

Dplus Kia answered. In Game 2, Wayne played a deathless 7/0/5 Corki and Loopy's Rell posted 19 assists on a 1/2/19 line, flipping a -208 gold deficit at 15 minutes into a 20-13 win over 35:10. DN SOOPers banked 4 dragons to 1 and still lost the baron and the tower race 8-5 — volume without control.

Then Game 3 arrived and the arc bent for good. With the market at just 38% on them, DN SOOPers took 4 dragons to 0, 1 baron to 0 and 9 towers to 1, converting 28-8 kills into a 60.1k to 46.8k gold canyon. Revenge's perfect 11/0/8 Kaisa and Lancer's 4/1/12 Renekton closed it in 27:10.

The Decider

Dplus Kia refused to die quietly. Game 4 was the series' best story: down 3,068 gold at 15 minutes, they rode Wayne's 4/1/10 Xayah — a 14.00 KDA — and Loopy's 15-assist Rakan to a 15-10 win in 30:30, swinging 9.2k gold and taking 7 towers to 2.

The comeback only delayed the ending. In Game 5, DDoiV's Sejuani roamed the river beyond anything Dplus Kia's Nidalee could shadow, and DN SOOPers claimed 4 dragons to 0 and 10 towers to 1. Flip's Sylas won mid despite a -1,634 gold deficit at 15, turning 56% kill participation into pressure Dplus Kia never answered. The decider ended 25-13 in 27:20.

Aftermath

The sweep rewrites the read on this bracket. Dplus Kia won the two games that went to a coin-flip draft close and lost every game where the market handed them a favourite's edge — a pattern that says their 5W-1L form and +1,162 differential were built on a softer path than DN SOOPers' -2,392 suggested. Wayne was magnificent in defeat; Revenge and DDoiV were the reasons the trophy never reached a fifth game.

Polymarket Trajectory

The market began at 76% for Dplus Kia and never fully believed what it was watching. It dropped to 54% after Game 1, climbed back to 64% after Game 2, then collapsed to 34% following Game 3 — the event's decisive swing. From there it wobbled around even money, still pricing Dplus Kia at 55% at Game 5's draft close, which DN SOOPers answered with a 25-13 demolition. The signal was available early: DN SOOPers' draft comfort in the bot lane and jungle never required the market's permission, and the 24% pre-match line was the only number that ever told the true story.

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*Data: draftlol draft & meta model — WSCI 2026 stats, snapshot 2026-09-27 UTC.*

*Odds via Polymarket, 2026-09-27 13:26 UTC.*